MFW 5 AWARDS is a NON-MONETARY REWARD in the form of a Certificate Of Achievement signed by the Committee, and dedicated online announcements as a PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF EXCELLENCE.
Awards will be given in the following categories:
- MFW Best Short Film of the Year Award 2019
- MFW5 Programmer’s Choice Award
- MFW5 Best Children Short Award
- MFW5 Youth Jury Choice Award
- MFW5 Best Fiction Short Award
- MFW5 Best Documentary Short Award
- MFW5 Best Animation Short Award
- MFW5 Best Audio Visual Experimental Short Award
- MFW5 Youth Jury Award 2019
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AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT
List of Award Winners will be announced at the MFW 5 Closing event, at Saturday, 12 October 2019
MFW 5 Nominees
MFW5 BEST FICTION SHORT NOMINEES
The nominees for Best Fiction 2019 managed to keep us wanting to know more about the people in the universe that was created.
VINEGAR BATHS
Amanda Nell Eu / Malaysia / 2018 / Fiction / 14:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Quirky & disturbingly beautiful, a completely different tension than what might be expected to happen in a hospital ward.
ELEPHANTBIRD
Masoud Soheili / Afghanistan / Fiction / 15:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Dramatic story wrapped in a comic mood to unbox an unfamiliar problem of basic human rights to travel.
IN FULL BLOOM
Maegan Houang / United States / 2018 / Fiction / 10:40
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A beautiful, peculiar film that gives a new glimpse of audio-visual interpretation of love and loneliness.
MFW5 BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT NOMINEES
A film is a story. This year’s nominees for best documentary are not limited to the reality. The genre bender is introduced to tease our critical thinking while equally heartfelt and entertaining.
FLORIAN’S LAST CLIMB (Florians letzter Aufstieg)
Harold Chapman / United Kingdom / 2018 / Documentary / 25:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Life can be stranger than fiction. The story spins around memory, archive, reality. This film is a fiction shot as a documentary. The filmmaker blurs the lines between fact and fiction, which makes this film, particularly intriguing in this present world full of facts presented as fiction or the other way around.
THE HORRIBLE THIRTY: ME, MY FATHER AND RICHARD THE TIGER
Rina Tsou / Taiwan / 2018 / Documentary / 20:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A personal documentary that presented in a beautiful surreal manner.
THE TRAFFIC SEPARATING DEVICE
Johan Palmgren / Sweden / 2018 / Documentary / 15:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: The bland sound topic turned into a very entertaining documentary while staying true to the story.
MFW5 BEST CHILDREN SHORT NOMINEES
Music, books and films help children develop their taste. These nominees offer cinematic works of art that could bring joy for children.
CARLOTTA’S FACE
Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld / Germany / 2018 / Animation, Documentary / 05:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A film that cultivate artistic taste while giving a sense of empathy that people might have a different view of the world.
LIKE AND FOLLOW
Tobias Schlage, Brent Forrest / Japan / 2019 / Animation / 02:05
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Two minutes attractive film with a twist.
RANCAK!
Stefani Guscia / Indonesia / 2018 / Animation / 05:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Feel the power of short storytelling and younger children audience in mind.
MILESTONE
Aviv Kaufman / Israel / 2018 / Fiction / 13:04
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Thrilling, powerfully acted, this film brings a satisfying conclusion.
MFW5 BEST AUDIO VISUAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT NOMINEES
Unconventional films that are open to be interpreted in many different ways.
SISTERS
Daphne Lucker / Not Specified / 2018 / Experimental / 15:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Dynamic and courageous in letting the narrative flows touching a gloomy subject.
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Hiroshi Kizu / Japan / 2018 / Experimental / 03:15
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Audio visual art with a unique spatial architectural approach conveyed with body movement.
THE UMBRELLA
Tsang Hing Weng Eric / Hong Kong / 2018 / Fiction / 21:59
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A strong intense film that opens wider conversation of a turmoil time.
MFW5 BEST ANIMATION SHORT NOMINEES
The nominees for Best Animation Short 2019 explore themes that are close to our daily life, friendship and family. We might think there is no more surprise to these topic, however animation push a boundary between imagination and reality.
SELFIES
Claudius Gentinetta / Switzerland / 2018 / Animation / 03:40
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Inspiring unique animation with unsettling familiar self-portraits.
THE FOX & THE PIGEON
OOV Studios / Canada / 2019 / Animation / 06:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Being simple is sometime the hardest and most beautiful thing artists could do.
MY JUKE-BOX (Mon juke-box)
Florentine Grelier / France / 2019 / Animation, Documentary / 14:59
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Fun, fresh, full of life work of documentary animation film.
MFW BEST SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 NOMINEES
The nominees for BEST SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR stand out as it lingers in our mind and heart.
FAUVE
Jeremy Comte / Canada / 2018 / Fiction / 15:52
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Set in a poetic landscape, this film stirs our emotions.
MINOR KEY
Iván Sáinz-Pardo / Spain / 2018 / Fiction / 11:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: The simplicity of this film is inspiring. Set in portrait format which correspond to a popular present way in seeing ‘stories’, this film proves that strong story matters.
ISLE OF CAPRI
Måns Berthas / Sweden / 2018 / Fiction / 05:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A delicate film that mix elements of love and sadness.
MFW5 PROGRAMMER’S CHOICE NOMINEES
The challenge of Minikino Film Week’s programmer when selecting films for this festival laid on the expectation to build a foundation for building cinema culture at places that have no access to cinema. The long term goal is to have a strong , critical mind audience. All four films selected from PROGRAMMER’S CHOICE nominees are a source of intriguing discussion that encourage audience to find more context in understanding them.
RASH
Myat Noe / Myanmar / 2018 / Fiction / 08:45
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A raw film that tries to break the grip of glamorizing what should be seen or not being seen on screen.
OPERATION JANE WALK
Robin Klengel, Leonhard MüLlner / Austria / 2018 / Documentary, Experimental / 16:14
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: Original artistic film based on a multiplayer shooter game. The interesting part is that the players become urban strollers avoid the combats whenever possible and become peaceful tourists of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan.
EVA
Xheni Alushi / Switzerland / 2018 / Fiction / 15:00
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: This film successfully keeps the audience guessing to the very end.
ORDINARY THINGS (THAT HAPPENED IN THE CHILDHOOD HOME OF THE MAKER OF THIS FILM)
Rachel Gruijters / Belgium / 2018 / Experimental / 11:50
PROGRAMMER’S COMMENTS: A crossover between film, installations, collecting and role-playing. Inspiring audio-visual work of art.
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH JURY AWARD NOMINEES
2019 MFW Youth Jury Board makes its choice from a range of the short films specially selected from 2019 official selections and deciding which of these will get the 2019 International Youth Jury Award.
Here are the list of nominees and comments from the 2018 Youth Jury Board in their own words.
FAUVE
Jeremy Comte / Canada / 2018 / Fiction / 15:52
YOUTH JUDGES COMMENTS: A story that doesn’t shy away from showing viewers nature’s grittiness and a horrific mishap, accompanied by beautiful cinematography and sound that grabs audiences by the shirt and places them right into the desolate environment.
THE APARTMENT
Justine Gauthier / Canada / 2018 / Fiction / 11:38
YOUTH JUDGES COMMENTS: A heartfelt story that focuses on a unique aspect of the broken family trope, showing a mother-children relationship that feels authentic and intimate.
SISTERS
Daphne Lucker / Not Specified / 2018 / Experimental / 15:00
YOUTH JUDGES COMMENTS: An audiovisual experience that is atmospherically stunning and powerful. The film sparks an emotional connection to the audience. Even through nonverbal communication, there’s an understanding felt by the audience towards the girls’ tragic home life.
CARLOTTA’S FACE
Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld / Germany / 2018 / Animation, Documentary / 05:00
YOUTH JUDGES COMMENTS: A personal story that utilizes the animation medium to transport audiences to see through the eyes of the title character and her experiences of not being able to recognize people’s faces.
MILK
Samiramis Kia / Canada / 2019 / Fiction /Animation / 12:29
YOUTH JUDGES COMMENTS: The sound design immerses the audience into the perspective of the protagonist and shares her predicament as she navigates the hearing world and has to decide between staying there or returning to the world she’s always known.